Munir Butt quotes

“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”
-- Munir Butt

Source : "Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt". Yale Daily News, 1994.

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“Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.”
-- Munir Butt

Source : Countryside Alliance Magazine interview, 2006.

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“London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable”
-- Munir Butt

Source : The Business Magazine, 2006.

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“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.”
-- Munir Butt

Source : Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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“Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.”

“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”

“Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.”

“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.”

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation